No hiding in the bedroom or bathroom either, since you have nothing to hide.

And drop the “please” from the preceding paragraph.

It’ll be OK. I don’t steal, and I have no desire to run your life or harm you. I won’t share your information with anyone who doesn’t need access (for reasons I can’t share with you). I have only your best interests at heart.

Trust me.

You’re not that gullible … are you?

It’s not about secrecy; it’s about privacy. It’s not that your life is shameful; it’s that it is no one else’s business.

Giving up your privacy destroys your liberty, and is not even in the interest of “national security” — it is in the interest of totalitarian surveillance and control … old Soviet Union levels of control and tyranny. Or worse.

Any state that claims it needs this information in order to be secure is a government based on extreme paranoia. It doesn’t deserve your support or loyalty.

So what will you do, now that you know?

Will you adjust your behavior, stop supporting these domestic enemies, and finally realize that you are responsible for governing yourself and that no one else can ever “represent” or protect you better than you can?

Will you finally accept the liberty of self-ownership and reject the slavery and coercion of statism?

Or will you continue to make excuses for these crooks and deny the facts?

Will you accept the “official story” and the empty assurances that your private information will stay private (beyond the offices of those spying on you, anyway) and will never be misused?

Will you pretend nothing happened, or just turn on the TV and ignore unpleasant truth, believing it will go away?

Which course do you think future history will show you should have taken?